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  • Pilk@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Reading through the yes and no case pamphlets for the referendum this year.

    The no case is shorter, but, unlike the yes case, it includes web links for further reading. Seems like a bit of an oversight for the yes case committee… or some kind of strategic choice I’d be interested to hear the justification for.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      this whole thing is torturous, like pulling off a Band-Aid slowly. For the love of god call the vote and lets get it done. I’m pretty confident we all KNOW the right answer here, but the longer this drags out the less confident I am that the right answer is gonna get the votes it needs. Leaving it till October just lets Murdoch spin up more fear and hate.

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        Yeah I suspect Gov are hoping that waiting till the end of the year will give the right-wing windbags time to run out of fear-mongering steam, not sure if it’ll work. It’d be nice if the debate was a bit less emotive by then.

        • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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          It wont work. It gives them more time to sow fear and disinformation. What we NEED is decisive leadership.

    • Electronic_Owl@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      I’m surprised the No pamphlet was allowed to include those three links…surely that’s just a sneaky way for them to circumvent the 2000 word limit?

    • Hongohones@aussie.zone
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      I decided to vote yes ages ago, my old neighbours are first nations people from Alice. So I’m just not reading any of it. I agree, get it done. Them and some of their family members were for it.

      It’s gross that the no camp are trying to reach the old no camp from the same sex marriage plebiscite. Calling all bigots and colonialists, vote no. ffs. It’s also ridiculous that they can’t be held to account for misinformation.

    • TassieTosser@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      I’m hard set on voting yes but damnit, the no campaign has a catchier slogan. Why couldn’t yes have at least made it rhyme.